The former Civil War hospital on Avery Street in Parkersburg has been purchased by Wood County Economic Development who plans to renovate it and use it as their office. (Photo by Michelle Dillon) ...

Editor's Note: Dr. Shauna Devine is a historian of Civil War and American medicine. She has a Ph.D. in medical history and currently holds a joint appointment as a research fellow at the Schulich ...

There has been a lot written and spoken about the Hammond Hospital at Point Lookout and Oct. 29 at the Leonardtown Library presenter Susan Youhn spoke about some of the nurses and doctors who worked ...

For the fully digitized diaries see negative numbers SIA2013-02704 through SIA2013-02816 (Diary 1858-1863) and negative numbers SIA2013-01937 through SIA2013-02126 (Diary 1864-1868). These diary ...

The building was used, among other things, as a smallpox hospital during the Civil War. You can read more about the building's history at ...